#100 days of swiftui

[codingoutofcuriosity]

5-27-24: Day 95

Day 95 consisted of another milestone and the seventh consolidation day, reviewing what I learned, key points, and a challenge to build another complete app from scratch by ourselves:

Key points:

Functional programming

Result

Challenge: Build an app that helps users roll dice then store the results they had. At the very least you should let users roll dice, and also let them see results from previous rolls:

This is as far as I got. It's a skeleton, but I plan to expand on it much further in the future and make it a portfolio project.

Day 95 quote: "Being challenged in life is inevitable, but being defeated is optional." - Roger Crawford

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I've had an idea for an app floating around in my head for a bit, so I decided to start 100 Days of Swift to see if I can take action. It'll be nice to have something to work towards that isn't math-related. I put together a moodboard of UI and design insp yesterday and I'm feeling really excited about how things'll turn out.

TASKS — 100DoS: Day 2 — Start Unit 2 lectures — Break down recycling

🎧⠀⠀ Am I A Girl? — Poppy 📖⠀⠀ Sleep Smarter, Shawn Stevenson

[kaptanyash]

I'm starting 100 days of swift challenge!

Preparation Phase

1. Set Up Development Environment

• Install the latest version of macOS.

• Install Xcode from the App Store.

• Set up a free Apple Developer account.

• Familiarize yourself with Swift and basic programming concepts (optional but helpful).

2. Organize Resources

• Download CS193p course materials from Stanford’s website or iTunes U.

• Gather supplementary resources (Swift Playgrounds, Apple’s documentation).

Learning Phase: CS193p Modules

Week 1: Introduction & Basics

• Lecture: Introduction to SwiftUI.

• Build your first SwiftUI app (basic UI, text, and views).

• Practice: Experiment with modifiers like .font(), .padding().

Week 2: Views and State

• Lecture: Understanding Views and State.

• Implement a simple counter app using @State.

• Study declarative UI concepts.

Week 3: MVVM and Binding

• Lecture: Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) in SwiftUI.

• Create a project using @State, @Binding, and @ObservedObject.

Week 4: Navigation and Lists

• Lecture: NavigationViews and List.

• Build a master-detail app.

• Practice creating dynamic lists with ForEach.

Week 5: Gestures and Animations

• Lecture: Gestures and Animations.

• Add drag, tap, and swipe gestures to a project.

• Create a simple animation using .animation().

Week 6: Persistence

• Lecture: Data persistence in SwiftUI.

• Build a project that saves user data locally (UserDefaults or CoreData).

• Explore FileManager for saving files.

Week 7: Networking

• Lecture: Fetching data from an API.

• Build an app that fetches and displays data using URLSession.

Week 8: Advanced Topics

• Lecture: Combine framework and more advanced SwiftUI concepts.

• Implement reactive programming principles in a small project.

Week 9-10: Wrap-Up

• Complete a capstone project consolidating learned concepts.

• Review lecture notes and rewatch key parts of the course for clarity.

Practice Phase

• Solve at least one Swift coding challenge daily on LeetCode or HackerRank.

• Follow Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) while designing apps.

• Create mini-projects to reinforce each week’s concepts.

Final Phase: Build & Share

• Build a portfolio app showcasing your learning journey.

• Submit an app to the App Store (optional).

• Share progress and milestones on GitHub or a blog.

[fahrni]

Thinking of Stream for Mac

I’ve neglected Stream for far too long and I don’t know when I’ll have the gumption to get back on it. Learning AppKit has been a slow and arduous process. I really hate when I suck at something. I know, I know, doing the work will make me better but I just don’t have the energy that 20 something me had to stay up all night learning and doing.

Once of these days I’ll get it finished. It may take years to get there but I’ll get there, I hope. 🤞🏼

Of course finishing off the 1.0 of Stream for Mac would allow me to work on Rooster, which is a new codebase and 100% SwiftUI. 😄

[metaphoricalmusings]

100 days of swiftui

i'm going through 100 days of swiftui. i want to be able to help justin with maitsu, even though i'm not a top tier engineer, i think that i could hopefully be of some help...

today (wed jun 12), i've done days 1-5. it's mostly reviewing basics in code, but tbh, i need it. feeling rusty but oh well! best to start somewhere as opposed to no where.

not really a productive day of work otherwise, but tomorrow we go back at it. maybe i'll sleep a little early today and get started fresh in the AM.

[jmuscara-blog-blog]

It took me a while, but I just finished Day 10 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/10 via @twostraws@mastodon.social . At this rate, “100 days” might take me a year, but it’s still progress…

[davidfegan]

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In this step, we understand your product vision and the market you want to cater. We gather all your requirements (feature list, use-case, goal, monetization methods and goals, integrations, future vision etc) and consult you on the best features for the MVP or for full product, and also do a competitor analysis to let you know the gaps in the market and propose you the best possible solution. We also lay out a scope of the work and provide you either a fixed price estimation for the VisionOS App development or offer you a dev team on month-on-month basis with these pricing plans.

You can book a Free VisionOS App Discovery Session from here.

VisionOS Apps Design, Wireframes, Prototyping Service

In this step, we convert your feature list into visual design and wireframes. This is the most crucial step among all others as whatever we are going to launch in the market is visualized and finalized here. We closely coordinate with you at this stage, figure out what kind of target market we have and what type of design would they like, and then create the design and simulate that like a clickable prototype or a demo video like this example.

We send these design visualizations for your feedback and approval and do as many iterations as you want and once approved we proceed towards the actual development.

Tech Architecture and Coding Phase: Agile Sprints

Once design is approved, we create the tech architecture to achieve what we have visualized in terms of the design and functionality. And the next step is coding the VisionOS App using SwiftUI, ARKit, Unity, Xcode, ComposerPro tech stacks as well as backend technologies like Node.js, MongoDB or likes.

We create the tech architecture keeping a larger future vision in mind so the MVP VisionOS App we develop today assuming for a small amount of users, should be scaled easily and quickly to cater millions of the users and more advanced features and also leave a lot of room for future integrations with different technologies. Usually our CTO and Engineering leads do the architecture job.

The whole project is broken down into small feature bunches and then they Weekly Agile Sprints are schedule to achieve those features week by week. At every weekend a progressive Adhoc VisionOS App build is released for testers and clients for the UAT. Any bugs or enhancements are noted down and added with the next week’s dev sprint and the build is shipped to either live or test server depending upon your priorities.

Adhoc Distribution and Final go-live

During the development phase, the visionOS App is distributed across a private network (of clients, early users/ testers, dev teams) as an Adhoc build that we create using Apple’s guidelines and protocols on its iTunes connect ecosystem integrated with the Xcode and other tech stacks associated with the VisionOS App Development.

The final App store submission is done when the Dev cycle is complete and you give us a go ahead to go live. We do the whole job for you.

The whole solution is also ported onto the live cloud server and infrastructure using our DevOps experts.

VisionOS App Maintenance, Enhancements, Upkeep

Once the first version goes live, you can either switch to the maintenance phase for the upkeep of the VisionOS App or can go about launched further features for enhancements. Our Dev and maintenance plans starts from as low as $ 2900 mo and sometimes even lesser if you only need under 100 hours of maintenance a month.

Like advanced mobile apps, VisionOS Apps also utilizes various third party APIs from user authentication to several other features like integration with maps, payment gateways, with other apps and backend and all such APIs launch new updates very frequently and hence the VisionOS app will have to be updated accordingly. Also the VisionOS itself is in its nascent stage right now and we can expect atleast 10 major or minor OS upgrades this year and for which a regular support & maintenance service will be required.

By offer Development, Design, Marketing, Maintenance, Porting services we make ourselves as you one stop VisionOS App Development Company.

VisionPro App Porting Services

Here we work to make your existing web app or mobile app to be absolutely compatible and oriented towards the new VisionPro Devices and VisionOS Operating system. You can leverage your existing product and userbase and scale them for VisionOS VisionPro device.

We’ll consult you in identifying which features can be ported onto VisionOS as is and which ones need to be made cmpatible and adaptable to the visionOS unique spatial features.

In most of the existing mobile apps, voice gesture commands and eye commands will be added as a go-to features when it comes to porting on to the visionOS and then more options can be added as the app grows.

VisionPro App Marketing Services

We render our inhouse marketing and sales expertise, tools and workflows for our clients and craft highly efficient and performance-oriented performance marketing campaigns to promote your VisionPro App.

This can include (but not limited to) – Paid ad campaigns to install VisionOS Apps across big outlets like Google, Meta/ FB/ Insta, Linkedin; organic SEO and organic campaigns, Organic and paid PR campaigns, Video content marketing, influencer marketing, Opinion leadership influenced market, Cross App integration promotion and so on.

You tell us your monthly App marketing budget and goal and we’ll craft and run and optimize the best campaign inside that.

Benefits of creating VisionOS Apps for Startups and Business

Clear Competitive Edge: The early mover advantage

It’s a very new device and have only started being sold in some parts of the US only. Anyone moving first for this device is definitely going to get a lot of advantage in terms of targeting the niche and comparatively upscale user-base.

Even the existing Apps that will scale for VisionPro Device exploiting its AR/ VR spatial capabilities are going to offer enhanced experience to its existing user base and gain more customer loyalty and branding.

A new world of opportunity to Innovative

For the same reasons as stated above, its spatial computing capabilities have opened a whole new world of amazing innovation opportunities. We’ve listed below some of the possible innovative use cases for various industries on this page itself, and we believe that there will be millions of amazing use cases out there that can solve the current world problems in much better ways than what is being done by the current smartphone device and apps.

Integrating the VisionOS apps with different devices will offer great possibility to further innovate as well where several interconnected devices sharing and exchanging data will proide more seamless convenient life to the user especially for healthcare, home automation, and business usage.

Unique and Immersive Experience

Vision Pro’s unique spatial computing, tracking and depth perception allow for highly realistic and interactive experiences in augmented reality (AR) and Virtual reality. Users can experience and manipulate virtual objects in a natural human way and that will create a sense of real presence and break down the barrier between the physical and virtual digital world.

Any app utilizing these spatial immersive capabilities are going to be used more and more by the users compared to regular mobile or web apps and therefore launching an app on VisionOS gives you a more loyal and consistently engaged user-base.

Better interactive Storytelling

You can tell your story in more interactive and appealing way when it looks and feel closer to the reality and that is exactly what Visionpro device offers to its users. Businesses as well as creators can create and tell immersive mixed reality stories that can actually engage users for a longer span than just scrolling back in few seconds.

A historical content creator can create virtual historical battles that you can see happening in front of your eyes, or or viewing ancient battles unfold right before your eyes. Or a virtual story showcasing you the world of dinosaurs as a moving and sounding reality.

Same goes for product visualization as we’ve discussed the same concept in details below in Ecommerce Use-case. You can showcase and appeal your product with a realistic experience, creation of immersive demos and free trials can help marketers win the consumer’s confidence to a higher degree than what you are able to do with the old technologies.

Story is everything, and VisionOS allows you to tell your story in the best way possible so far in the history of the mankind.

VisionOS App development is not complex

Creating mixed reality Apps have always been a complex and typical exercise compared to the conventional software development, especially because of the demand of creating interactive virtual reality UI and UX. However, VisionOS has already done majority of the heavy lifting and if developers are familiar with Apple iOS development and Arkit (which our developers are) then creating VisionOS Apps using the same skill sets becomes really easy.

Its juts a transition of the device and the change of UI, while rest of the technologies will be as same as iOS developers have been using for the last few years.

Process of Creating VisonPro VisionOS Apps and the required Tools

Understanding the Vision Pro Ecosystem and its features

At the heart of the Vision Pro experience is the blend of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), powered by Apple’s cutting-edge M2 chip and a specialized R1 chip. These components work in harmony to deliver unparalleled performance and immersive experiences, tracking your movements and rendering captivating virtual environments.

Understand its most important and unique features, such as:

Eye, Hands, and Voice based gesture commands:So whichever VisionPro app idea that you are contemplating to create should completely exploit these cool features.

Virtual Avatars and 3D Facetime: Virtual avatar in VisionPro universe are going to more realistic and so as the video calls. We also think of a scenario where an AI avatar of yours takes a meeting on your behalf while you physically take another meeting and the possibilities are endless.

Immersive-ness Control:VisionPro users can increase or decrease the level of immersiveness as per their choice, so your App should be compliant to the same.

Transparent Display: As VisionPro is a mixed reality spatial device, the display is actually transparent as it goes hand in hand with the reality. So your UI/UX design must adhere to this fact and in most of the cases a minimal design will turn out to be the best design because everything else will be taken care of by the real world.

02. Getting Started with visionOS App Development

The gateway to creating apps for Vision Pro is visionOS, Apple’s bespoke operating system tailored for spatial computing. This environment is your canvas, allowing you to merge digital creations with the physical world seamlessly. To set sail on this development journey, you’ll need a Mac running macOS Monterey or newer, the latest version of Xcode, and the Vision Pro developer kit. At Agicent’s VisionOS App Development Company, we’ve all the required infrastructure, team, testing devices and some more. You just have to tell us about your project, and we take care of the rest.

03. Ideation of VisionPro VisionOS App

An entrepreneur or startup or a brand should explore all the possibilities a spatial VisionOS App can achieve on this device. Do a market analysis, competitive analysis, go back to the history where web apps exploited mobile capabilities and a new market was emerged, so similarly think of what additional capabilities mobile apps can offer if they are ported onto visionPro devices.

We think of scenarios in the industries like healthcare where preventive healthcare and telemedicine apps can be created for VisionOS with spatial capabilities, or in an industry where there are plenty of machines and a VisionPro Maintenance App can tell the supervisor about health, maintenance schedule, warranty of the machines just by looking at them, or think of a real estate app where you just wear your visionpro device and see which of the properties in front of you are up for sale or rent and so on.

It is always beneficial to have a industry or subject matter expert on board while ideating for an app for that particular industry, however there are some low hanging fruits that anyone can achieve simply by scaling the existing apps with the spatial mixed reality features for the visionpro device.

We as a VisionOS App Development Company provide you consulting service even before development in figuring out the right features, UI/ UX and target userbase for your VisionOS App idea.

Source: https://visionosappdevelopmentcompany.com/

[hackernewsrobot]

100 Days of SwiftUI

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui

[romanvassilchenko-blog]

Day 1

This day I started from “Hacking with swift” and opened two pages: 1. 100 days of Swift    https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100 2. 100 days of SwiftUI https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui

Also I started to learn principles of design on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei8CShLGbYQ

And I want so start watching Stanford CS193P About iOS development https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPA-ayBrweUzGFmkT_W65z64MoGnKRZMq Good luck to me and I wish not to abandon this blog journal 

[dariusdunlap]

Hacking with Swift – a great learning resource

Hacking with Swift – a great learning resource

I’ve been following Paul Hudson’s work for a few years now, and I’m also a very happy subscriber to his Hacking with Swift+ program. Paul provides great learning resources, many of them for free. If you want to get started learning Swift (and SwiftUI), I recommend 100 Days of SwiftUI, his free learning program. He also has a UIKit version, at 100 Days of Swift. But right now, around WWDC2022,…

[mrmcnamerica]

Statement of Intent

Hey you dorks, it's a new year, which means it's time for me to list all the things I want to do in 22! I'm not sure anyone besides me cares, but since this is mostly for me to keep track of for myself, here we go!

Brain

Complete 100 days of Swift

Complete 100 days of SwiftUI

Gain working knowledge of Python

Gain working knowledge of R

Gain rudimentary knowledge of conversational Japanese

Re-gain working knowledge of Spanish/French.

Take classes on: Data science, algorithms, machine learning.

Learn to love math.

Read 12 books.

Spend time with my friends.

Have friends.

Text people back >50% of the time.

Body

Lose ~25 pounds.

Workout more than 50% of days.

Run another 1/2 marathon (though this one may not happen because a bunch of you won't stop being idiots.)

Make something with my hands.

Get the dog into a training class.

Maybe learn to like hiking or camping or whatever? idk

Bank Account

Make more money. (My yearly raise hits on 1 January so done! Already making progress.)

Spend less money.

Buy things that last, even if they're not cheap.

Ditch Amazon 30%

Ramp up savings.

Clear debts.

Design/Code/Publish that app idea.

Become suddenly and almost inexplicably wealthy. (Stretch goal).

Thanks for coming! I'm going to try to hold myself accountable this year, so maybe don't read those posts if you're not interested. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[codingoutofcuriosity]

4-20-24: Day 64

Day 64 consisted of 3 tutorials:

1. Loading photos from the user’s photo library

2. How to let the user share content with ShareLink

3. How to ask the user to leave an App Store review

Day 64 quote: "[The postage stamp’s] usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." - Josh Billings

[coldfox851]

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With an all-new design that looks great on macOS Big Sur, Xcode 12 has customizable font sizes for the navigator, streamlined code completion, and new document tabs. Xcode 12 builds Universal apps by default to support Mac with Apple Silicon, often without changing a single line of code.

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Xcode 12 looks great on macOS Big Sur, with a navigator sidebar that goes to the top of the window and clear new toolbar buttons. The navigator defaults to a larger font that’s easier to read, while giving you multiple size choices. New document tabs make it easy to create a working set of files within your workspace.

Document tabs.

The new tab model lets you open a new tab with a double-click, or track the selected file as you click around the navigator. You can re-arrange the document tabs to create a working set of files for your current task, and configure how content is shown within each tab. The navigator tracks the open files within your tabs using strong selection.

Navigator font sizes.

The navigator now tracks the system setting for “Sidebar icon size” used in Finder and Mail. You can also choose a unique font size just for Xcode within Preferences, including the traditional dense information presentation, and up to large fonts and icon targets.

Code completion streamlined.

A new completion UI presents only the information you need, taking up less screen space as you type. And completions are presented much faster, so you can keep coding at maximum speed.

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An all-new design groups all critical information about each of your apps together in one place. Choose any app from any of your teams, then quickly navigate to inspect crash logs, energy reports, and performance metrics, such as battery consumption and launch time of your apps when used by customers.

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SwiftUI offers new features, improved performance, and the power to do even more, all while maintaining a stable API that makes it easy to bring your existing SwiftUI code forward into Xcode 12. A brand new life cycle management API for apps built with SwiftUI lets you write your entire app in SwiftUI and share even more code across all Apple platforms. And a new widget platform built on SwiftUI lets you build widgets that work great on iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Your SwiftUI views can now be shared with other developers, and appear as first-class controls in the Xcode library. And your existing SwiftUI code continues to work, while providing faster performance, better diagnostics, and access to new controls.

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When you open your project in Xcode 12, your app is automatically updated to produce release builds and archives as Universal apps. When you build your app, Xcode produces one binary “slice” for Apple Silicon and one for the Intel x86_64 CPU, then wraps them together as a single app bundle to share or submit to the Mac App Store. You can test this at any time by selecting “Any Mac” as the target in the toolbar.

Test multiple architectures.

On the new Mac with Apple Silicon, you can run and debug apps running on either the native architecture or on Intel virtualization by selecting “My Mac (Rosetta)” in the toolbar.

Multiplatform template

New multiplatform app templates set up new projects to easily share code among iOS, iPadOS, and macOS using SwiftUI and the new lifecycle APIs. The project structure encourages sharing code across all platforms, while creating special custom experiences for each platform where it makes sense for your app.

Improved auto-indentation

Swift code is auto-formatted as you type to make common Swift code patterns look much better, including special support for the “guard” command.

StoreKit testing

New tools in Xcode let you create StoreKit files that describe the various subscription and in-app purchase products your app can offer, and create test scenarios to make sure everything works great for your customers — all locally testable on your Mac.

Get started.

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[fahrni]

Matt Mullenweg on Messages and RCS

Matt Mullenweg

I’ve heard stories of teenagers being ostracized because they couldn’t afford an iPhone, of group chats rejecting people who turn the chat from blue to green. I know that sounds petty, but do you remember middle school? It’s about status, and Apple knows that. Everything they make bleeds status and signaling. They’re the best in the world at it, and I should know—I’m typing this post from a M3 Max black MacBook with 128GB of RAM. But while status signaling with amazing hardware and design touches is harmless, in software and social settings in can be harmful.

I have suspicions about the Messages API. Apple are keeping it close to their chest for one or more good reasons. Could it be seriously flawed if not used in a very specific way? Sure, that’s plausible. Is it probable? Who the heck knows? I certainly don’t. Apple aren’t know for their network services abilities. Some folks have great experiences, others live with a complete mess. It’s a crap shoot. If you’re a developer of iOS and/or Mac Apps and used CloudKit for anything you’ve most likely experienced frustrated users because their data isn’t syncing. Like I said earlier, it’s a crap shoot and Apple don’t seem to care enough to enhance these frameworks and services. Gotta push on with those new features for next years OS updates!

Another reason they may be keeping it to themselves is the most likely scenario. It’s a competitive advantage like no other on the iPhone. I’d put money on this being the reason any day. Question is, why can’t they have a competitive advantage?

Steve Jobs initially pledged to make available as an open standard but ultimately restricted to iOS devices. iMessage availability has been a particular sore point in the rivalry between Android and iOS, with iMessage’s “green bubbles” attaching significant social stigma to Android phones. - Russell Brandom • The Verge

What I’d like to see is Apple create a new team just for the RCS Messaging app and fully embrace the specification. This would allow them to seep their “blue bubble” app nice and clean and give folks a full featured and secure RCS experience. Sure, iPhone and Mac users would have to use two separate apps, so what. It’ll get Google and EU regulators off their back and allow Apple to keep Messages less complicated.

As an aside, being able to create a new RCS app from scratch would allow Apple to make a 100% from the ground up SwiftUI experience for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. That would be really nice in my opinion. Apple need to build a new, preferably larger, app in SwiftUI to show the world how it’s done and to eat their own dog food.

I also have a question for the Messages team. Why isn’t the Messages icon blue, like the bubbles in the app? Seems like it should be.

[jmuscara-blog-blog]

I just finished Day 8 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/8 via @twostraws@mastodon.social

The checkpoint was a bit tricky but I figured out a way to do it.

[joemaher35]

02.21.20

I have decided to get serious about learning Swift UI.

Over the past couple days I have listened to some very inspiring conversations on clubhouse featuring Jordan Singer, Eli Rousso, and Meng To.

These conversations have inspired me to do a deep dive into Swift UI!

After poking around a bit I discovered a free program called “100 days of Swift UI”. (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui)

Today is Day 1!

I’ll keep yall posted. 😎 Have a lovely day,

-Joe